President Trump will be a guest of The Queen during the visit from June 3-5, and will also have discussions with the British Prime Minister in Downing Street.

Crabs, the armoured personnel carriers of the creepy-crawly world, fascinate children, writes Richard Collins.

An ambulance service in England has apologised to the family of a pensioner who died after waiting nearly four hours for paramedics to arrive.

Here we go. That time of the year again.

A dog breeder in England who made more than £100,000 by trafficking women onto a "sexual conveyor belt" across England and Wales has been jailed for four years.

Earlier this week, Britain’s new £3bn (€3.3bn) aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth arrived in Portsmouth amid much fanfare and red-white-and-blue jingoism. The carrier is to be based there for 50 years.

The British Prime Minister will be updated on the Grenfell Tower recovery effort later as the number of high rises feared to pose similar fire risks mounts.

A British Royal Navy warship has intercepted several Russian vessels in the English Channel during the bank holiday weekend.

The widow of a famous artist, whose work features in the British royal family collection, has donated one of his paintings to an Irish care home where he spent his final days.

Tourism ambassadors have, for the first time, begun selling Cork city’s visitor attractions to passengers on board the luxury cruise ships calling to the Port of Cork in a bid to capture a slice of an estimated €12m market.

A woman who killed her 19-day-old baby by causing him a massive head injury had earlier described herself as a "ticking time bomb", a court has heard.

A grandmother with a fear of heights has thanked the "amazing" firefighters who rescued her and her grandson from a broken-down ferris wheel in England which left the pair stranded 35ft in the air.

Profits at the main Irish-based entertainment firm owned by singer-songwriter phenomenon Hozier rose more than three-fold to €1.77m last year.

A white former police officer has been convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting dead of an unarmed black man accused of shoplifting in Virginia.

ENGLAND: One of the most important record collections to catalogue the history of music from 800AD until 1700 is to go under the hammer at auction.

US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton’s campaign has confirmed that her former Democratic rival Bernie Sanders will join her at a New Hampshire event, where he plans to endorse her.

Investigators in England probing the "orchestrated" violence in Marseille have released pictures of 73 England football fans suspected of being involved in the disorder.

A group of 28 suspected illegal immigrants have been discovered in a lorry in England.

An appeal was made at a League Two football match in England by police investigating a suspected hammer attack on a teenage girl at a property possibly linked to prostitution.

England: Help was not just a phone call away for one Lancastrian woman who mistakenly phoned police on the other side of the Atlantic to complain about a dog outside her home.

Cesca became addicted to writing whilst at university.

More than 100 cinemas in the UK and Ireland will be screening the upcoming special episode of Sherlock: The Abominable Bride, on January 1st, 2016.

Here's what to watch on the box tonight.

Gardaí were involved last year in seizing €700m worth of drugs, targeting 621 crime gangs, and tracking down more than 9,000 missing persons.

Your guide to tonight's TV.

Dreamland is the story of a town’s collapse in America’s mid west and its battle for recovery and redemption. Cormac O’Keeffe on the grip catastrophic drug addiction — legal and illegal — had on Portsmouth in Ohio.

A teenager in England has spoken of his shock when he suffered a stroke leaving him paralysed just days after he celebrated his 18th birthday.

An academic conference focusing on the sinking of the Lusitania and the general sea war from 1914 to 1918 is to be hosted by University College Cork next week.

THOSE PESKY RABBITS by Ciara Flood (Templar €8. 80)

Once known as Lily Allen’s brother, Alfie Allen has now forged his own career in Game of Throne writes Susan Griffin.

ENGLAND: The owner of a top-rated bistro smelled a rat when a customer pulled a rodent from his pocket and shouted out in alarm in an attempt to get a free meal.

The human tragedy that was the transportation of Irish convicts to Australia was immortalised in the sporting anthem, ‘Fields of Athenry’. The first journey from Cobh was one of the most dangerous, writes Robert Hume

When he died on a WW1 battlefield Basil Maclear was an Irish rugby star and acknowledged by many of the early game’s greats

The world’s longest ocean race, a tough and thrilling 40,000-mile challenge, is on the hunt for Irish crew, and the best part — no experience is required.

A 17-year-old fan of the Tomb Raider video “attempted to murder” three women in random stabbing attacks because he could not lose his virginity, a court has heard.

An Irish-based drugs gang was behind the shipment of €50.5m of cocaine concealed in banana boat which was seized at a port in southern England.

A man who broke into his neighbour’s flat to silence a barking dog ended up getting bitten and arrested.

Legal proceedings against the parents of a five-year-old brain cancer patient who took him out of hospital without doctors’ consent are expected to continue in Spain today.

Spanish media have said a mother and father who took their child from an English hospital to Spain are due before a judge tomorrow accused of child cruelty.

Missing five-year-old Ashya King, who was taken by his parents from Southampton General Hospital without doctors’ consent, has been found in Spain, Hampshire Constabulary said.

The battery on the feeding system of a five-year-old boy with a brain tumour who was taken from hospital by his parents without consent is “now likely to have expired”, police in England have said.